StarCraft 2 is now free-to-play

Back at BlizzCon, Blizzard made a surprising announcement about StarCraft 2. The company revealed that its world-famous real-time strategy game would be going free-to-play, giving players the chance to check out most of the game's content without spending a dime. That changeover has officially happened, so if you've never played StarCraft 2, now seems like the perfect time to jump...Read more ...

StarCraft II is now free for PC and Mac gamers

StarCraft II might be getting on a bit now - it's seven years old, in fact - but it's still a cracking game (indeed, it's one of our eight best strategy games for the PC ), and you can now bag the title for free on Windows and Mac. As Blizzard announced back on November 5, the entire Wings of Liberty campaign is available in the just-unleashed free-to-play version of StarCraft II, and the unranked multiplayer ladder is also freely accessible from the get-go. Anyone can simply download and play the game via a Battle.net account (if you don't have one of these, you'll need to sign up ). As...Read more ...

Let's get Raynor to rumble: StarCraft 2 launches free version

Blizzard have released a big free version of sci-fi real-time strategy game StarCraft II , offering one full singleplayer campaign along with all the multiplayer. This launched overnight, available now if you sign up for Battle.net and download its client doodad. The free version contains the campaign from 2010's Wings of Liberty-the one focused on humans-plus bot battles and online competitive, casual, and co-op action. That's a fair chunk of clicking for free. A big ol' SC2 patch has launched alongside this for all players too.Read more ...